By Abigail Hauslohner
The Washington Post
District officials announced that the city is now receiving enough electricity from wind power to meet one-third of the local government’s electricity needs under a deal that took effect Aug. 1.
The deal, with the Spanish energy company Iberdrola Renewables, supplies city facilities with 125,000 megawatt hours of electricity annually from a wind farm in Pennsylvania, officials said.
Although officials said the power surge promises to save the city government as much as $45 million on its electric bills over the next 20 years, they also said it will have no impact on residential customers’ monthly utility bills.
The power flows only to government facilities, unlike in some other towns and cities across the country, where local utilities are advancing opportunities for private properties to go green.
“I don’t think there is any impact on individual electricity bills,” D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said at a news conference promoting the deal.
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